To think we need a Dadsnet?

[mumtoateen]

So dads cannot be single parents? There's a nansnet and mums net but no Dadsnet. Yes there's a single topic for it, but surely dads should be able to have their own site?

[ifyourehoppyandyouknowit]

You be sure to wipe that keyboard before anyone else touches it.

[HotPinkWeaselWearingLederhosen]

Eurgh.... BadLad just touched Mumsnet with his willy

[MollyHooper]

That looks like a code BadLad, what is your penis trying to tell you?

I'm now wondering what technique a DH would use to type, Morloth. Precise poking or just flopping it about and hoping for the best?

I can type with my nose.

[RyanAirVeteran]

There is something called DadzClub.

[NotNewButNameChanged]

How very interesting. Our Glorious Leader appears to have spoken on this very topic only today....

www.thedrum.com/news/2014/07/29/mumsnet-founder-justine-roberts-eyes-potential-dadsnet-launch

[mignonette]

Our glorious leader- Oh I so want Justine to change her title pronto.

[SqueakySqueak]

Dadsnet It exists.

:)

[ADishBestEatenCold]

"MNHQ should. It's a very gender orientated service they offer. If this was a site mainly for males women would hit the roof"

So is it that you actually think there isn't a male equivalent, a father's forum, and you think that there should be one, but that it should be set up and provided for them by women, the mumsnet team?
If so why do you think that, mumtoateen? Do you think it would be best set up by a mother's forum team and mirroring the mother's forums?

OR, is it simply that you think that a father's forum doesn't exist and should exist for dads, regardless of who sets it up for them?
If that is what you mean, you really haven't looked very far, have you OP?

www.fathersforum.com/ An "online resourse for expectant and new fathers" which includes loads of chat.

www.dad.info/ Which includes "The Dad Talk Forum" again includes loads of chat.

//www.daddydazed.com/forum/ A "Place For Dads" again a mega amount of chat on a mega amount of topics.

There are so many pages of these, that I am only linking you to a couple of them, mumtoateen.
Did you not know of these? Did you not look before you posted? Or did you know of them, but find them not quite what you would want from a Father's forum?

Maybe your op should have addressed the question 'Why aren't there as many chat forums for mums as there are for dads?

[TurquoiseCat]

But why just mumsnet/dadsnet?

I would pay good money to see DH call a complete stranger 'hunni' in a thread about parent child spaces on netdads.

[nannynick]

As a bloke I am happy here. Does not matter if a man, woman, or cyborg reads my posts now or in the distant future (hi to those in the future - how is life on Mars?).

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Before men join they should all have to 'do a BadLad' and we can see how big their willies are. Bwahahaha.

99% of the internet is male, can't we just have a tiny corner? Where, incidentally, men are welcome.

[FreudiansSlipper]

surely a site for single dads should not be called something so simple as Dadsnet could they not start one themselves

better to call it HeroDad, WonderfulDad or SaintlyDads this would be more fitting

aww bless sticking up for the menz

[gordyslovesheep]

I don't want to see willies - they are not pretty

[gordyslovesheep]

ps PMSL @ Freudian

[Fluffyears]

Men have football forums and these have non footy related topics.

[firesidechat]

The OP hasn't come back to argue her case.

[northlight]

Hello mumtoateen waves. Are you back home or are you still 'enjoying' your canal holiday?

You seem to have absented yourself from this thread pretty sharpish.

[NotAnotherPackedLunchBox]

mumtoateen my not have absented herself from the thread.

She had a couple of threads deleted earlier so perhaps she can no longer post.

[awsomer]

You don't have to be vetted to join MN - there's not a test where you have to prove you identify as a woman and have at least one child. All are welcome (yes that means dads too).

[firesidechat]

You amaze me NotAnotherPackedLUnch.

Or maybe not.

[ViviPru]

I too agree with Fireside. I joined MN a good 10 years or so before the concept of motherhood was even on my radar.

It has evolved and changed since it's inception, I suspect if the founders had had any clue at the outset how it would grow and mutate, they may well have called it something else.

To me it is essentially familynet. Most of the topics/musings no matter how abstract tend to have a basis in family life I. Some form or another. But as Fireside quite rightly says, it's a successful brand, it would be crazy to change it now.

[TiggyD]

We have a vibrant Dadsnet section on here that's pulsating with manly talk and discussion. Have a look if you think you can handle the pace.

(Although I think some of the posters might be women pretending to be men.)

[HotPinkWeaselWearingLederhosen]

I'm totally a dude, dude.

[TiggyD]

A man-ness test for Weasel!

You have a slotted screw loose in your house but you have no screwdriver . Do you:

A. Use a hammer?
B. Use a new knife?
c. Hire a handyman?
D. Go out and buy a rechargeable electric drill and complete set of bits?

[HotPinkWeaselWearingLederhosen]

d. But with an addition of a table saw, because it was in Screwfix and had £30.00 of and it's bound to come in handy.